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Terror over Africa : the shocking true story of the attempted hi-jacking of British Airway's flight BA2069
Stewart, Stanley2025
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The 'Nairobi Incident' is an astonishing event of flying's worst nightmare, and it occurred over Sudan on British Airways' Flight 2069 on 29 December 2000. In the early hours, a strong, disturbed young man entered the flight deck of the packed Boeing 747, grabbed the controls from First Officer Phil Watson, the only pilot in the cockpit at the time, and tried to crash the plane with everyone on board. The attacker tossed the aircraft about the sky and all the passengers and crew thought they were going to die. At one moment the 747 almost flipped on its back with no chance of recovery and, what would have been the world's third worst aviation disaster, was avoided by only the narrowest of margins as Captain Hagan who had gone for a break, returned and, with the help of two passengers, managed to wrest the controls from the desperate young man. This book tells the astonishing tale of the flight of fear.
Main title:
Author:
Stewart, Stanley, author
Imprint:
Barnsley : Air World, 2025.
Collation:
288 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781036140267 (hbk)
Dewey class:
363.2876
LC class:
HE9779
Language:
English
BRN:
4279211